Seems to be a lot of controversy about this 'product'.
But if you change your mind and buy it,
I hope you enjoy my USB,
I hope you enjoy my USB,
I hope you enjooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooy...
My USB stick!
and it gets cold up here - we're only a 3 hour drive from Canada
Three things:
1. L
2. O
3. L
I'm three hours north of you, in Vancouver. (The real one, not the little wannabe in Oregon.) It doesn't get cold here. Not even close. When the temperature falls below freezing, and we get our annual 1/2 inch of snow, the city nearly shuts down in total panic.
I grew up where it is actually cold; not Minnesota, where it merely gets mildly chilly, but northern Manitoba, where on a cold day exposed skin freezes on contact with the outside air. -55 deg C with a 40 knot north wind is something you notice as you run from your house to your car. And if there's no wind, you walk very slowly to your car to avoid frostbite from the realtive wind chill factor you create when you walk.
All of those electrical outlets in the parking lots? No, we're not pioneers in electric car use; you need to plug in your car's block heater overnight or it will not start. Period. Hypothermia? Every kid gets a mild case at least once every winter.
If you live in Seattle, and you think it's cold, book a flight to Winnipeg. Then drive north for a day.
That's why they disappeared; as they kept getting bigger, they couldn't catch up to the female Gigantopithici, who understandably ran away from them in fear. Except for the few masochistic types who kept the species alive, known as Gigantopussici.
Hype it up, get a few million more in funding, then reveal (in mock astonishment) that the extra heat in the lab was coming from Dr. Bubba's partially digested burrito.
Public face: Let's make sure everyone has a secure network for their own protection.
Private face: Let's make sure peopole can't set up free wireless access points in their neighborhood that will take profits away from ISP's.
The "private face" statement isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's like having a tenant in a basement suite and sharing your cable TV with them. But I don't see why it needs to be legislated; let the ISP's make it part of their terms of use.
Just be sure your security settings are set high, and you never, ever choose to install anything that pops up when you visit a web page.
When I get back to work on Monday, I've got a good few hours ahead of me fixing a spyware infestation that probably came from one errant mouse click (one of those CWS variations that open the doors to everything else). As soon as I've cleaned his computer (possibly invoving a re-format), I'm removing IE from his desktop and putting Firefox in its place.
Okay, that long, drawn-out negative was aimed at one specific suggestion: turning Mozilla into Adware. Having Pay-Pal donation buttons on the extension makers' home pages is a good idea. Or possibly having a central Pay-Pal donation button on the Firefox extensions page that would let you choose which extension writer you want to donate to. And depending on how the MPL differs from the GPL, extension writers may already be able to create comercial extensions (haven't RTFMPL).
But putting advertising on the Firefox UI is a Bad Idea(TM). It alone would take Firefox from the growing shadow in IE's rearview mirror to the forgotten depths of browser obscurity.
And you're right; I didn't read your entire original post (skimmed until the page break). There's only so much/. I can get away with reading at work.;)
True, but Firefox 1.5 is a major release, hence moving up from 1.0.x all the way to 1.5. While it might be reasonable to expect most of your extensions from 1.0.6 to work in 1.0.7, it's less reasonable to expect everything to carry over to 1.5.
And the OP wasn't talking about a stable version; he was talking about 1.5 RC1, and seemed to expect that everything should have worked, even though it is still a pre-release version.
This is one of the small hurdles that open source software faces. The core dev team can make everything work in the application itself, but if users have come to rely on third-party extensions, and the extension writers don't keep up, some people blame the core team, not the third party.
"If you use our advertising software, you absolutely shall not under any circumstances anyway ever make use of hackbots like the ones at www.hakz0rz.com/180solutions/popuphakz/code to install our software on any computer you do not own without the express consent of the user. The instructions at www.hakz0rz.com/180solutions/popuphakz/howto will tell you exactly what you are absolutely not allowed to do under any circumstances anyway ever, *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*."
Forget the small-timers and go after the real problem.
"We've dropped the Geography requirement. The kids weren't testing well." -Superintendent Chalmers
This is just like the nutritional information labels on food packaging. "Only ten calories per serving!! (Serving size: half a cookie)"
Is there a precedent for re-naming a storm once a name has been applied? Alpha seems to have been poorly thought out, for reasons already mentioned.
It's not likely that 22 or more names will be required for a while, but it has happened once, and will happen again eventually. The next time there are 22 storms, will they skip from Waldo to Beta (assuming there isn't a Beta this year)?
The Greek Fire in the Wiki reference was used centuries later. Was it maybe a revival of something Archimedes came up with?
Thinking of combustible fluids, though: of course the ancient world had access to some; oil lamps were used in ancient times. If this idea has any merit, the question is how to reconcile the description of a device that used a mirror with the description of lighting the air on fire. Archimedes was a creative engineer. It's too bad he couldn't have documented his creations in Wiki.
From the old book: "...and owing to the thickness and smoothness of the mirror he ignited the air from this beam and kindled a great flame, the whole of which he directed upon the ships that lay at anchor..."
Was it merely a mirror device, or did he use a combustible fluid? The ancient description, if the wording translates accurately, seems to indicate that he set the air on fire, then directed that fire at the ships. The ancient Greeks certainly had no petroleum, but did they have access to other combustible fluids?
Slashdot Mirror
Seems to be a lot of controversy about this 'product'.
But if you change your mind and buy it,
I hope you enjoy my USB,
I hope you enjoy my USB,
I hope you enjooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooy...
My USB stick!
Three things:
1. L
2. O
3. L
I'm three hours north of you, in Vancouver. (The real one, not the little wannabe in Oregon.) It doesn't get cold here. Not even close. When the temperature falls below freezing, and we get our annual 1/2 inch of snow, the city nearly shuts down in total panic.
I grew up where it is actually cold; not Minnesota, where it merely gets mildly chilly, but northern Manitoba, where on a cold day exposed skin freezes on contact with the outside air. -55 deg C with a 40 knot north wind is something you notice as you run from your house to your car. And if there's no wind, you walk very slowly to your car to avoid frostbite from the realtive wind chill factor you create when you walk.
All of those electrical outlets in the parking lots? No, we're not pioneers in electric car use; you need to plug in your car's block heater overnight or it will not start. Period. Hypothermia? Every kid gets a mild case at least once every winter.
If you live in Seattle, and you think it's cold, book a flight to Winnipeg. Then drive north for a day.
(/old-geezer weather rant)
That's why they disappeared; as they kept getting bigger, they couldn't catch up to the female Gigantopithici, who understandably ran away from them in fear. Except for the few masochistic types who kept the species alive, known as Gigantopussici.
I give your review a score of 5: funny (although insightful might be more like it).
Comment if you found this review helpful.
Come on, Amazon, I dare you to cross the border.
Actually, it's cytherian.
Mercury - mercurian
Venus - cytherian (or venerean)
Earth - terran
Mars - martian
Jupiter - jovian
Saturn - saturnian
Uranus - uranian
Neptune - neptunian
Pluto - "Here, boy!"
Having a stable democratic government doesn't necessarily prevent foreign fishing vessels from raping your fisheries. *cough*Grand Banks*cough*
Pump 'n' Dump
Hype it up, get a few million more in funding, then reveal (in mock astonishment) that the extra heat in the lab was coming from Dr. Bubba's partially digested burrito.
Public face: Let's make sure everyone has a secure network for their own protection.
Private face: Let's make sure peopole can't set up free wireless access points in their neighborhood that will take profits away from ISP's.
The "private face" statement isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's like having a tenant in a basement suite and sharing your cable TV with them. But I don't see why it needs to be legislated; let the ISP's make it part of their terms of use.
Just be sure your security settings are set high, and you never, ever choose to install anything that pops up when you visit a web page.
When I get back to work on Monday, I've got a good few hours ahead of me fixing a spyware infestation that probably came from one errant mouse click (one of those CWS variations that open the doors to everything else). As soon as I've cleaned his computer (possibly invoving a re-format), I'm removing IE from his desktop and putting Firefox in its place.
NOOOOOOOOO!
Okay, that long, drawn-out negative was aimed at one specific suggestion: turning Mozilla into Adware. Having Pay-Pal donation buttons on the extension makers' home pages is a good idea. Or possibly having a central Pay-Pal donation button on the Firefox extensions page that would let you choose which extension writer you want to donate to. And depending on how the MPL differs from the GPL, extension writers may already be able to create comercial extensions (haven't RTFMPL).
But putting advertising on the Firefox UI is a Bad Idea(TM). It alone would take Firefox from the growing shadow in IE's rearview mirror to the forgotten depths of browser obscurity.
And you're right; I didn't read your entire original post (skimmed until the page break). There's only so much /. I can get away with reading at work. ;)
True, but Firefox 1.5 is a major release, hence moving up from 1.0.x all the way to 1.5. While it might be reasonable to expect most of your extensions from 1.0.6 to work in 1.0.7, it's less reasonable to expect everything to carry over to 1.5.
And the OP wasn't talking about a stable version; he was talking about 1.5 RC1, and seemed to expect that everything should have worked, even though it is still a pre-release version.
This is one of the small hurdles that open source software faces. The core dev team can make everything work in the application itself, but if users have come to rely on third-party extensions, and the extension writers don't keep up, some people blame the core team, not the third party.
This just in from Frombork, Poland...
Nicholas Copernicus is still dead. Officials report his condition as "unchanged".
"If you use our advertising software, you absolutely shall not under any circumstances anyway ever make use of hackbots like the ones at www.hakz0rz.com/180solutions/popuphakz/code to install our software on any computer you do not own without the express consent of the user. The instructions at www.hakz0rz.com/180solutions/popuphakz/howto will tell you exactly what you are absolutely not allowed to do under any circumstances anyway ever, *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*."
Forget the small-timers and go after the real problem.
That's the whole reason they have pre-release software; so extension writers have a chance to update their code before final release.
If you want everything to work right away, don't use beta software!
Oops. CNet, not CNN. Waiting... 10, 11, 12... what's up with the 16s delay anyway?
From CNN.com:
"All your base are belong to Google"
Full story: http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5917178.html
"We've dropped the Geography requirement. The kids weren't testing well." -Superintendent Chalmers This is just like the nutritional information labels on food packaging. "Only ten calories per serving!! (Serving size: half a cookie)"
In related news, the dreaded 'Hammer Cartel' has been indicted on 199,000 counts of smashed thumbs.
Is there a precedent for re-naming a storm once a name has been applied? Alpha seems to have been poorly thought out, for reasons already mentioned.
It's not likely that 22 or more names will be required for a while, but it has happened once, and will happen again eventually. The next time there are 22 storms, will they skip from Waldo to Beta (assuming there isn't a Beta this year)?
The Greek Fire in the Wiki reference was used centuries later. Was it maybe a revival of something Archimedes came up with?
Thinking of combustible fluids, though: of course the ancient world had access to some; oil lamps were used in ancient times. If this idea has any merit, the question is how to reconcile the description of a device that used a mirror with the description of lighting the air on fire. Archimedes was a creative engineer. It's too bad he couldn't have documented his creations in Wiki.
From the old book: "...and owing to the thickness and smoothness of the mirror he ignited the air from this beam and kindled a great flame, the whole of which he directed upon the ships that lay at anchor..."
Was it merely a mirror device, or did he use a combustible fluid? The ancient description, if the wording translates accurately, seems to indicate that he set the air on fire, then directed that fire at the ships. The ancient Greeks certainly had no petroleum, but did they have access to other combustible fluids?